Listening list for Music 3312 Advanced Standing Exam. All tracks
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Music 3312 Advanced Standing Exam
Van
Mvt. 1: Allegro con brio (13:44), from
Beethoven, Symphony No. 3: Allegro con brio
1 in C, Op. 21, Symphony No. 3 in E f
Ludwig
Mvt. 5: Symphonie Fantastique: épiso
Fantastique: episode de la vie d'un ar
Berlioz, Hector Songe d'une Nuit du Sabbat Berlioz, (Louis-) Hector, in Royal Philh
Philharmonic Orchestra, Mackerras, C
Orchestra, 012)
Schumann, Mvt. 5: Eusebius (1:55), from Carnava
Carnaval, Op. 9 (Carnaval): Eusebius
Robert Schumann
Mvt. 6: Florestan (0:52), from Carnava
Schumann, Carnaval: Scènes Mignonnes sur 4 notes
Carnaval, Op. 9, Piano Sonata No. 14
Robert (Carnaval): Florestan
Piano Sonata No. 1, Op. 6
Schumann, 12 Gedichte aus Liebesfrühling: Liebst du Mvt. 4: Liebst du um schönheit (2:32),
Clara um schönheit Schumann, Clara: Lieder-Completely
Schubert, Gretchen am Spinnrade: Gretchen am Mvt. 1: Gretchen am Spinnrade (4:01)
Franz Spinnrade Complete Songs, Vol 13 - Lieder Sacr
Stravinsky, Mvt. 2: The Augurs of Spring (3:51) fr
Vesna svyashchennaya (The Rite of
Igor by Stravinsky, Igor (Fyodorovich), in V
spring): The Augurs of Spring
(Fyodorovich) Orchestra, Skrowaczewski, Stanislav
Shostakovich, Symphony No. 5: 'A Soviet Artist's Mvt. 2: Allegretto (4:59), from Sympho
Dimitry Practical Reply to Just Criticism' Just Criticism' (Symphony No. 5), in S
(Dimitriyevich) (Symphony No. 5): Allegretto Sea Interludes (CD 2)
Cowell, Henry The Banshee: The Banshee Mvt. 1: The Banshee (2:37), from The
Sonatas and Interludes (Sonatas and
Mvt. 6: Sonata No. 5 (1:56), from Son
Cage, John Interludes for Prepared Piano): Sonata
Prepared Piano), in Cage: Sonatas an
No. 5
Crumb, Mvt. 4: Devil-music (1:39), from Black
Black Angels: Devil-music
George Henry Angels
Crumb, Mvt. 5: Danse Macabre (1:01), from B
Black Angels: Danse Macabre
George Henry Black Angels
Study Guide:
Sonata Form (structure, etc.)
Franz Joseph Haydn (dates, no. of symphonies)
Prince Nicholas Esterhàzy(Esterhàza Palace)
Hoboken
London Symphonies (Salomon)
Orchestration for a classical symphony and no. of movements, structure of each mvt
WA Mozart (dates, no. of symphonies)
Köchel
Don Giovanni Dramma giocoso Lorenzo da Ponte
Piano Concertos
Concerto Sonata Form
Yankee Tunesmiths, William Billings
New England Psalm Singer
Beethoven (dates, no. of symphonies)
3 Style Periods (description of each style)
Heiligenstadt Testament
Scherzo and Trio
Symphony No.3 “Eroica” (date, original dedication)
Symphony No.6 "Pastoral"
Symphony No.9 “Choral”
Schubert Erlkönig JW Goethe
Winterreise Otto Deutsch
Kunstlied (Lieder)
Song Cycle (definition)
G Rossini Il Barbiere di Siviglia
Rossini Crescendo
G Donizetti Lucia di Lammermoor
V Bellini Norma
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Exoticism Symphony No.3 “Scotch”,
Symphony No.4 "Italian"
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra (programming innovations)
Lieder ohne worte Concert Overture
Fanny Hensel (part songs)
Hector Berlioz
Symphonie fantastique (date, program)
idée fixe, Thematic Transformation
Treatise on Instrumentation, Harold in Italy
Robert Schumann (dates) Clara Wieck Schumann Davidsbund: Florestan, Eusebius
Neue Zeitschrift für Musik
Carnaval (description, ASCH) Dichterliebe
Frederic Chopin (nationality, where he lived)
Tempo rubato, Mazurka, Polonaise
George Sand, 24 Preludes, Op.28, Etudes (significance)
Niccolo Paganini 24 Caprices for Violin, op.1
Franz Liszt (Influences)
Symphonic Poem
12 Études d’exécution transcendante
Hungarian Rhapsodies, Piano Transcriptions
Changes to piano performance
Louis Moreau Gottschalk (significance)
Richard Wagner (significance), Music Drama (continuous music, Leitmotif, bar
form)
Tristan und Isolde Tristan chord (spelling) Destruction of Tonality, Bayreuth
Festspielhaus
Der Ring des Nibelungen: Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, Siegfried, Götterdämmerung
(know order)
Guiseppe Verdi Division (structure) of the operas,
3 Style Periods
La Traviata, Aida, Falstaff, Otello
Typical 19th century Italian Opera Casting
Bizet Carmen (date) Exoticism
Tchaikovsky, 3 ballets, Nadezhda von Meck, Marius Petipa
Antonin Dvorak Symphony No.9 “New World"
Giacomo Puccini
Madama Butterfly (1904)
Gustav Mahler
No. of Symphonies, conducting posts
Kindertotenlieder
Hugo Wolf Lieder style
Richard Strauss
Tone Poem
Ein Heldenleben Salome
Johannes Brahms NeoClassisicm
No. of Symphonies (forms used, Symphony No.4)
Moguchay kuchka (Borodin, Mussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakov) Modality, Boris
Godunov
Bedrich Smetana (nationality) Ma Vlast-Moldau
National Society for French Music (1871)
Cosmopolitan:Cesar Franck
French: Gabriel Faure
Claude Debussy (dates)
Impressionism (characteristics)
Le Symbolisme, Stephane Mallarmé
Prélude à l’aprés midi d’un faune
Maurice Ravel Daphnes et Chloe
Les Six Francais (Honegger, Poulenc, Milhaud)
Sergei Rachmaninov
Four piano concertos, 24 Preludes
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
English Musical Renaissance
Edward Elgar, Ralph Vaughan Williams (folk songs)
Gustav Holst
Jean Sibelius Finlandia
Second Viennese School
Arnold Schönberg (3 style periods)
Pierrot Lunaire sprechstimme
“Emancipation of the Dissonance”
Expressionism
12 tone technique (3 possibilities for varying a tone row)
Alban Berg (style), Wozzeck
Anton Webern (style)
Bela Bartók Concerto for Orchestra
Serge Koussevitsky Mikrokosmos
Folk song collection, Music for Strings, Percussion and Celeste
Paul Hindemith, Gebrauchmusik
Olivier Messiaen, Quatuor pour le fine du temps
Igor Stravinsky (dates) Sergei Diaghilev
Ballet Russe Petrushka Chord
Le sacre du Printemps (date), Primitivism
Premiere Riot
Rhythmic innovations “tyranny of the barline”
Charles Ives Essays before a Sonata
Musical style, 114 Songs
Aaron Copland Nadia Boulanger, Martha Graham Appalachian Spring
Pulitzer Prize (19450
Henry Cowell – The Banshee – Tone cluster
John Cage Indeterminacy Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano
4’33’’ ASLSP
Ruth Crawford Seeger , Dissonant Counterpoint
String Quartet (1931)
Prokofiev Alexander Nevsky
Shostakovich (DSCH), Socialist Realism
Scott Joplin Maple Leaf Rag (date), Ragtime (style, description)
Blues/Jazz: Definitions, elements and characteristics, origins, scat singing, Louis
Armstrong, Bessie Smith
George Gershwin = Rhapsody in Blue
Swing - Ellington
Bebop - Davis, Parker
Benjamin Britten Peter Grimes
Samuel Barber - Vanessa
Milton Babbitt Total Serialism
Music Concrete (definition)
K. Penderecki Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima
George Crumb Black Angels (description)
Minimalism (def., characteristics) Reich, Riley
Philip Glass
New Romanticism
David Del Tredici , Alice Works
Philip Johnson - PostModernism
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich (Pulitzer Prize 1983)
John Adams Nixon in China (1987), Dr. Atomic (2005), On the Transmigration of
Souls (2002), Short Ride in a Fast Machine